In the preliminary task, the filmmakers focused on smoothly filming match-on-action shots and applying the 180-degree rule. For the main project, they created a 2-minute opening for a paranormal horror film, applying techniques learned previously. Specifically, they implemented match-on-action shots more easily and overcame challenges of the 180-degree rule in a confined space. Close-ups and a variety of shots improved from the preliminary, helping capture the genre more effectively. The preliminary experience helped with understanding shot types and how to best utilize space and sound.

1. Question 7.
What do you feel you have learnt
in the progression form the
preliminary task to the final
project?

2. WHAT BRIEF WERE YOU
WORKING TOWARDS?
 Preliminary Exercise
In our preliminary task our main aim was to film a
continuous conversation as smoothly and neatly as
possible.
We used match on action shots, shot reverse shots and
we also applied the 180 degree rule in our task.
We continually filmed a character walking towards a
door, opening the door and walking into the room.
Then we included a second character who began a
conversation with character 1. During this process we
managed to involve all the shots that we aimed to use
to make our preliminary task successful in achieving
it’s main aims.

3. WHAT BRIEF WERE YOU
WORKING TOWARDS?
 Main Project
The aims for our main project were to create a 2 minute
opening to a film set in our chosen genre of
paranormal horror.
We had to intervene a number of shots and rules that
would make our film more effective. Some of these
we submerged from our experience in using them in
our preliminary task.
We included a match on action shot and used the 180
degree rule.

4. Match on Action
Our main match on action
shot in the preliminary
exercise was the first
character reaching for the
door handle with a close-
up of their hand on the
handle, then the
character walking through
the door.
We applied the match on
action shot in the preliminary
exercise of the hand on the
door handle into our final
project. We also used this
when the character presses
the lift button which is
accompanied by the sound of
the lift arriving and the doors
opening.
 MAIN
PROJECT
PRELIMINA
RY
Doing the match on action shot previously in the
preliminary exercise helped us make the match on
actions shots we included in our final project a lot
easier to shoot and set up as we already knew how to
do them and make them look effective, such as the
best camera angles for each shot.

5. Preliminary Exercise
Main Project
Applying the 180 degree rule in our
preliminary exercise was done by using a
certain object on the edges of the shot, in
this case chairs, to measure where to
film, ensure we didn’t break this rule.
In our final project, we applied the 180
degree line rule in the scene where the
lift doors open onto the hall. This was
difficult as we had to shoot the shot firstly
without the characters, like they were
behind the camera in the lift, and then
with the characters walking in front of the
camera. This was hard as it was done in
a confined space and relied on the doors
as framing so the rule wasn’t broken.
The way that our preliminary task
assisted us in creating and not breaking
an effective 180 degree rule in our final
film was because we had already
experienced techniques that would help
us stick to the rule such as using objects
as framing and marking where we had
paced the camera for previous shots.
The 180 Degree Rule

6. Two
Shot
From the preliminary exercise, we interpreted the two shot included
into the final project. Both texts include both main character, but
involve different forms. The preliminary exercise two shot consist of
both character talking where the main tasks shot, both characters are
in silence. Furthermore, in the preliminary exercises’ shot, the
characters are facing one another, (shows them in a conversation) the
main projects two shot illustrates the characters facing the same way
and not at each other (Further demonstrating their awkwardness
towards one another.) The previous experience of this shot in the
preliminary exercise made it easier for us as a group to understand
and interpret how to do the shot and what alternate angles we could
use. As example, the shot at the bottom right being a low angle shot
looking up at the two characters instead of being at the same level.

7. Improvements
For the Preliminary task, the shot standards have
improved. We have used a number of alternate and
different shots in our final project. For example, a range of
angle shots, pans and tilts. We also enhanced shots used
in our first exercise such as long shots, wide shots and
close-ups and made them more effective in our 2 minute
film.

8. Close-Ups
One of the most obvious things that
was improved in the final project
was the use of close-ups.
In the preliminary task we did not
include any close ups of characters
faces or objects other than the door
handle used as our match on action
shot. In the final project we used a
number, from close ups of the
character’s faces, the lift button, the
door handle, the bucket and even
characters feet in action.
The preliminary task helped us understand where to use close-ups and which shots and
angles would be most effective to our film, (even taking the genre of our film into
consideration, as close ups that were from a lower angle better suited the genre of
paranormal horror.)

9. Wide shots
In the preliminary exercise, space
was limited, therefore wide shots
were harder to achieve. However, in
the main project, we were able to
take a couple of wide shots due to
the space available. This effectively
improved the range of shots involved
in the film. The way the preliminary exercise equipped us
with the understanding and knowledge of
wide shots that would better effect our final
project was that it allowed us to know that we
had to think about distance and interpret the
sound as well. If the camera was too far away
from the actors, it was more difficult to clearly
hear the dialogue that was important to the
scene (even if we could make it louder when
final cutting and editing it, it wasn’t as good a
quality) therefore we had to think about the
distance of the shot for the sound as well as
the effect.

10. Wide shots
In the preliminary exercise, space
was limited, therefore wide shots
were harder to achieve. However, in
the main project, we were able to
take a couple of wide shots due to
the space available. This effectively
improved the range of shots involved
in the film. The way the preliminary exercise equipped us
with the understanding and knowledge of
wide shots that would better effect our final
project was that it allowed us to know that we
had to think about distance and interpret the
sound as well. If the camera was too far away
from the actors, it was more difficult to clearly
hear the dialogue that was important to the
scene (even if we could make it louder when
final cutting and editing it, it wasn’t as good a
quality) therefore we had to think about the
distance of the shot for the sound as well as
the effect.